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Most novelists write about twisted lives.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
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salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
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Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
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Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
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Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
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If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
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